Welcome to the Creationism vs Science page! To your right, you will
see an image of a 3.5 million year old skull excavated from Kenya in
1999. This one is named Kenyanthropus platyops, and it is being
proposed as another possible distant ancestor of mankind. Its features
are somewhat different than those of "Lucy", also known as
Australopithecus afarensis (discovered in Ethiopia in 1974),
with smaller teeth and a flatter face. It is also possible that it is
related to the australopithecus family, and that its initial
classification as a separate genus may have been premature.

Researchers are hopeful that more such remains may be found as
excavations continue. This specimen is being added to the growing list
of species which existed 2 to 3.5 million years ago and are clearly
neither modern primate or modern human, one of which may have been
our ancestors.

However, creationists reject all of this. According to creationism,
humans sprouted fully-formed in our current state, as did all animal
"kinds" (a term which creationists use instead of
"species", but which is curiously undefined). In an attempt
to co-opt the language of science (if not its methods), they even
call it "Creation Theory", even though a scientific theory
should allow one to derive specific predictions from a defined
mechanism: something which is impossible for "Creation
Theory".

Of course, none of this is a problem for creationism because it
is not (despite its claims to the contrary) a scientific movement.
It is a religiously motivated political movement, which is why
they publish all of their "research" directly to the general
public rather than letting other scientists subject it to peer review.
Unfortunately, there are many kinds of arguments which are far more
convincing to someone who struggled with grade 11 chemistry than someone
who actually studied science at the university level, which is why
creationism enjoys more than 50% support from the American public while
languishing at less than 1% among scientists.

Click here to get started
on your introduction to the Creation vs Evolution debate

Random Cynic's Quote:"People seem to enjoy things more when they know a lot of other people have been left out" - Russell Baker, American humourist (1925-?)